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Talks & Presentations Collection

EU GDPR as an opportunity to address both big data security and compliance
December 3, 2019

EU GDPR as an opportunity to address both big data security and compliance

Many businesses will have to address EU GDPR as they deploy big data projects. This is an opportunity to rethink data security and deploy a flexible policy framework adapted to big data and regulations. Eric Tilenius explains how consistent visibility and control at a granular level across data domains can address both security and GDPR compliance.

Executive Briefing: Data governance and evolving privacy legislationDaring to move beyond compliance

Executive Briefing: Data governance and evolving privacy legislationDaring to move beyond compliance

December 3, 2019

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is an ambitious legal project to reinstate the rights of "data subjects" within an increasingly lucrative data ecosystem. Aurlie Pols explores the legal obligations on companies and their respective interpretations and looks at how scale and integrity will be safeguarded in the data we increasingly base decisions upon in the long term.
Executive Briefing: Dealing with device data

Executive Briefing: Dealing with device data

December 3, 2019

In 2007, a computer game company decided to jump ahead of competitors by capturing and using data created during online gaming, but it wasn't prepared to deal with the data management and process challenges stemming from distributed devices creating data. Mark Madsen shares a case study that explores the oversights, failures, and lessons the company learned along its journey.
From data dinosaurs to data stars in five weeks: Lessons from completing 80 data science projects

From data dinosaurs to data stars in five weeks: Lessons from completing 80 data science projects

December 3, 2019

More organizations are becoming aware of the value of data and want to get started and scaled up as quickly as possible. But how? Is it possible to get something useful done in five weeks? Kim Nilsson shares her experiences, both good and bad, delivering over 80 five-week data science projects to over 50 organizations, as well as some concrete tips on how to become a data star organization.
Gaining additional labels for data: An introduction to using semisupervised learning for real problems

Gaining additional labels for data: An introduction to using semisupervised learning for real problems

December 3, 2019

There are sometimes occasions where the labels on data are insufficient. In such situations, semisupervised learning can be of great practical value. Yingsong Zhang explores illustrative examples of how to come up with creative solutions, derived from textbook approaches.
GDPR, data privacy, anonymization, minimization. . .oh my!

GDPR, data privacy, anonymization, minimization. . .oh my!

December 3, 2019

The global populace is asking for the IT industry to be held responsible for the safe-guarding of individual data. Steve Touw examines some of the data privacy regulations that have arisen and covers design strategies to protect personally identifiable data while still enabling analytics.
Growing a data-driven organization at easyJet

Growing a data-driven organization at easyJet

December 3, 2019

Many large organizations want to develop data science capabilities, but the traditional complexity and legacy of such companies dont allow a fast and agile evolution toward data-driven decision making. EasyJet is working toward becoming completely data driven. Alberto Rey shares real-world examples on how easyJet is tackling the challenges of scaling up its analytics capabilities.
Hadoop and object stores: Can we do it better?

Hadoop and object stores: Can we do it better?

December 3, 2019

Trent Gray-Donald and Gil Vernik explain the challenges of current Hadoop and Apache Spark integration with object stores and discuss Stocator, an open source object store connector that overcomes these shortcomings by leveraging object store semantics. Compared to native Hadoop connectors, Stocator provides close to a 100% speedup for DFSIO on Hadoop and a 500% speedup for Terasort on Spark.
Hadoop as a service: How to build and operate an enterprise data lake supporting operational and streaming analytics

Hadoop as a service: How to build and operate an enterprise data lake supporting operational and streaming analytics

December 3, 2019

If you have Hadoop clusters in research or an early-stage data lake and are considering strategic vision and goals, this session is for you. Phillip Radley explains how to run Hadoop as a shared service, providing an enterprise-wide data platform hosting hundreds of projects securely and predictably.
How knowledge graphs can help dramatically improve recommendations

How knowledge graphs can help dramatically improve recommendations

December 3, 2019

Collaborative filtering is great for recommendations, yet it suffers from the cold-start problem. New content with no views is ignored, and new users get poor recommendation. Aurlien Gron shares a solution: knowledge graphs. With a knowledge graph, you can truly understand your users' interests and make better, more relevant recommendations.
Keynote: Kubernetes at GitHub

Keynote: Kubernetes at GitHub

December 3, 2019

In this talk, Jesse will provide an overview of the on-premesis Kubernetes deployments that currently power 20% of GitHub's production services. He'll also review the challenges GitHub has faced and o …
Keynote: Manage the App on Kubernetes

Keynote: Manage the App on Kubernetes

December 3, 2019

Kubernetes has yet to close the developer gap from source code to app running in a production Kubernetes cluster. Many build bespoke tools. How can the Kubernetes community come together to build deco …
Modern Big Data Pipelines over Kubernetes [I]

Modern Big Data Pipelines over Kubernetes [I]

December 3, 2019

Big data used to be synonymous with Hadoop, but our ecosystem has evolved over time with new database, streaming and machine learning solutions which dont necessarily benefit from the Hadoop deployme …
Moving from Mesos to Kubernetes Without Anyone Noticing [I]

Moving from Mesos to Kubernetes Without Anyone Noticing [I]

December 3, 2019

At Hootsuite, weve been using Mesos and Marathon as our microservices platform for over two years but last year, we made the decision to bet on Kubernetes as its replacement. Eight months later, a sm …
Multi-Tenancy Support & Security Modeling with RBAC and Namespaces [I]

Multi-Tenancy Support & Security Modeling with RBAC and Namespaces [I]

December 3, 2019

As container technologies mature, Kubernetes is clearly gaining momentum with developers as a means to deploy their distributed applications. As more applications and clusters are deployed by more dev …
You Have Stateful Apps - What if Kubernetes Would Also Run Your Storage?

You Have Stateful Apps - What if Kubernetes Would Also Run Your Storage?

December 3, 2019

Kubernetes supports Stateful Applications by connecting to your existing storage. But what if you dont have any? Or the storage capabilities differs between your environments? Wouldnt it be nice if …
Enforcing Bespoke Policies in Kubernetes [I]

Enforcing Bespoke Policies in Kubernetes [I]

December 2, 2019

Kubernetes enables fully-automated, self-service management of large-scale, heterogenous deployments. These deployments are often managed by distributed engineering teams that have unique requirements …
Highly Available Services During Maintenance Events

Highly Available Services During Maintenance Events

December 2, 2019

Maintenance events occur and require taking down nodes for various reasons. Eric and Maisem talk about the best practices and lessons learned trying to minimize downtime during routine maintenance eve …
How to secure Apache Spark?

How to secure Apache Spark?

December 2, 2019

Security has been a large and growing aspect of distributed systems, specifically in the big data ecosystem, but it's an underappreciated topic within the Spark framework itself. Neelesh Srinivas Salian explains how detailed knowledge of setting up security and an awareness of what to be looking out for in terms of problems and issues can help an organization move forward in the right way.
Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation

Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation

December 2, 2019

Leading companies are integrating operations and analytics to make real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. There are many aspects to digital transformation, but the timely delivery of actionable data is both a key enabler and an obstacle. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses.
Introduction to Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) and how it brings up to 300x performance improvement to Qunars streaming processing

Introduction to Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) and how it brings up to 300x performance improvement to Qunars streaming processing

December 2, 2019

Alluxiothe first memory-speed virtual distributed storage system in the worldunifies the data from various under storage systems and presents a global namespace to various computation frameworks. Xueyan Li and Yupeng Fu explore how Alluxio has led to performance improvements averaging a 300x improvement at service peak time on stream processing workloads at Qunar.
IoK: Istio-on-Kubernetes Deep Dive [I]

IoK: Istio-on-Kubernetes Deep Dive [I]

December 2, 2019

Running microservices at scale is not easy. Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Did I mention that Istio runs on Kubernetes? During the talk I will cover the follow …
Istio: Sailing to a Secure Services Mesh [I]

Istio: Sailing to a Secure Services Mesh [I]

December 2, 2019

Istio is an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In this presentation we describe the security features of the Istio service mesh: how it helps you s …
Journey to AWS: Straddling two worlds

Journey to AWS: Straddling two worlds

December 2, 2019

As Intuit moves its SaaS platform from its own data centers to AWS, it will straddle both worlds for a period of time (and potentially indefinitely). Calum Murray looks at what straddling means to data and data systems.
Kafka Operator: Managing and Operating Kafka Clusters in Kubernetes [A]

Kafka Operator: Managing and Operating Kafka Clusters in Kubernetes [A]

December 2, 2019

In this talk we will demonstrate an approach to management of kafka clusters in kubernetes deployments. We will show how we can provision kafka clusters and configure it using kubernetes concepts and …
Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespaces Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure [I]

Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespaces Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure [I]

December 2, 2019

As Squarespaces engineering organization evolved, microservices became an obvious solution to quickly deliver new features and improve infrastructure reliability. We encountered significant challenge …
Lessons from piloting the London Office of Data Analytics

Lessons from piloting the London Office of Data Analytics

December 2, 2019

Eddie Copeland shares lessons learned from piloting the London Office of Data Analytics, a collaboration between the Greater London Authority, Nesta, and ASI Data Science that is exploring the potential of applying data analytics to reform public services.
Lessons learned working with Spark and Cassandra

Lessons learned working with Spark and Cassandra

December 2, 2019

Matthias Niehoff shares lessons learned working with Spark, Cassandra, and the Spark-Cassandra connector and best practices drawn from his work on multiple big and fast data projects, as well as challenges encountered along the way.